Accurate real-world data
Cesium preserves the accuracy of the source data so you can confidently use it for planning, analysis, modeling, and simulation.
Curated 3D Content
Curated 3D terrain, buildings, and imagery
Add real-world context to your applications using curated 3D data with global coverage. Cesium Global 3D Content and partner data is ready to use with any compatible client, including CesiumJS and Cesium for Unreal, Cesium for Unity, and Cesium for Omniverse.
Cesium Global 3D Content
- Cesium World Terrain (CWT)
- Cesium World Bathymetry (CWB)
- Cesium Moon
- Cesium Mars
- Cesium OSM Buildings & Cesium OSM Buildings for CWB
- Japan 3D Buildings & Regional Terrain
- Sentinel-2 Imagery
Available Partner Data:
- Bing Maps Aerial Imagery
- Google Maps 2D Tiles
- Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles
- Vexcel 3D Cities
Combine with your own data
Add global context to your high resolution captures to create comprehensive digital twins.
Open standards
Available in open standards like 3D Tiles and WMTS so you can use it in our viewers, any other compatible viewer, or in your own custom applications.
Stream global 3D content from Cesium ion
Cesium global 3D terrain, imagery, and buildings are included with your Cesium ion account.
- Host and combine your own data with Cesium content in a private account
- Stream from Cesium's fast, scalable cloud infrastructure
- Benefit effortlessly from ongoing content updates
Cesium global 3D content can also be licensed for your own environment with Cesium ion Self-Hosted.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Glacier National Park, Montana
Himalaya Mountain Range, Nepal
Snowdonia National Park, Wales
Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
Cesium World Terrain
High resolution global 3D terrain with up to 1 meter accuracy, curated from open and commercial sources.
- Get accurate elevation data for planning & analysis
- Create more realistic visualizations by adding your architecture and building models, or drone imagery, on top of 3D terrain
- Combine your own terrain DEMs with this global layer by uploading them to Cesium ion
Cesium World Bathymetry data for Hawaii and the surrounding ocean, visualized with Unreal Engine and a purple color gradient applied
Cesium World Bathymetry
A global bathymetry and topographic terrain tileset built upon GEBCO's global dataset and incorporating higher resolution data up to 1m resolution.
- Get accurate depth data below bodies of water for bathymetric use cases
- Use Cesium 3D engines to simulate realistic coastal and underwater environments or to apply bathymetric visualization techniques for analytics
- Combine your own terrain DEMs with this global layer by uploading them to Cesium ion
Cesium Moon
The first complete, accurate, and readily-accessible 3D dataset of the moon, built from imagery and terrain data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program.
- Get accurate elevation data for planning and analysis using a Moon centric ellipsoid.
- Use Cesium Moon as a base layer to place models of habitats, vehicles, or rovers on the lunar surface.
Cesium Mars
Olympus Mons visualized with Cesium Mars
The Gale Crater visualized with Cesium Mars
Cesium Mars draped with the Mars MOLA elevation map from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Cesium Mars
A complete, readily accessible 3D dataset of Mars that combines terrain captured by NASA and ESA with the Mars Viking Colorized Global Mosaic imagery.
- Provides accurate elevation data for planning and analysis using a Mars centric ellipsoid (IAU_2015:49901 CRS).
- Use Cesium Mars as a base layer to place models of habitats, vehicles, or rovers on the Martian surface.
Burj Khalifa, Dubai
New York City
San Francisco
Union Station, Denver Colorado
Washington, DC
Cesium OSM Buildings
Add real-world context to applications in urban environments with this global 3D buildings layer.
- Use it as a base layer when analyzing patterns in cities across the world
- Contains per-feature data like name, address, commercial/residential status, and more
- Combine with your own high-resolution data to build immersive experiences
Kyoto in Cesium for Unreal
Fuji City in Cesium for Omniverse
Sapporo City in Cesium for Unreal
Japan 3D Buildings
Japan 3D Buildings is countrywide, open source data from Japan’s MLIT PLATEAU Platform that combines over 200 individual ward, city, and village CityGML datasets into one comprehensive tileset.
- 23 Million individual 3D building models in Japan
- Easily access and use this data for building high precision digital twins from a single asset
New York City
Midwest American farmlands
West Coast, United States
Port Augusta in Southern Australia
Key West, Florida
The Strait of Gibraltar in Southern Spain
Washington, DC
Suburb of Denver, Colorado
Power station in Arizona
Global Bing labels
Northern Ireland
Bing Maps Aerial Imagery
High resolution global satellite imagery from Bing Maps, up to 15 cm resolution. Cesium ion also includes Bing Maps Aerial with Labels, for satellite imagery with city and road labels, or Bing Maps Road for just roads and landmarks.
- Get realistic visualizations by draping it on Cesium World Terrain or your own DEM
- City and road labels are available in multiple languages
Cesium ion Self-Hosted
If your enterprise deployment requires Cesium content in your own environment, let's talk.